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This study examines the changing role of Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese in contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It analyzes how Tibetan Buddhism is both adapting to contemporary Chinese society and reorienting the lives of Han practitioners.

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Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage provides a comprehensive account of the ways Tibetans are reimagining their sense of belonging in the realms of politics, religion, and development. Drawing on sources and examples from Tibet and its diaspora, this book offers an image of Tibetan identity as a multifaceted, living, and changing entity.

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The age of maritime expansion and the Anglo-Spanish War have been analyzed by generations of historians, but nearly all studies have emphasized events and participants at the top.

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This comprehensive biography of Tiger Woods looks at where he came from, his sports accomplishments and philanthropic efforts, and the effect he has had on sports history, marketing, and broadcasting.

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Subtitled: How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends

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Alternately exhilarating, inspiring, and sobering, this expansive collection captures the soul of the African-American experience in the indelible words of the NAACPUs greatest heroes, heroines and honorees.

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How does our perception of time shape our political ideas and commitments This cutting-edge monograph makes a major contribution to the history of time by exploring how thinkers and activists of the French radical left and right conceived of the past, present and future in the period between the Dreyfus Affair and the First World War.

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Explores the major changes in our use of and attitude to time over three centuries. Asks why the 1960s and 1970s expectation that leisure time would increase has failed to come about -- .

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Explores the build up to the conflict as 'The Prophet' Tenskatawa and his brother Tecumseh rallied the tribes to drive back the American settlers once and for all. This book provides a clear view of the intense fighting that followed at Tippecanoe and the true impact that it would come to have on the War of 1812.

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In a night of unforgettable tragedy, the world's most famous liner Titanic struck an iceberg on 14 April 1912 and sank. Over 1500 people died. Whose fault it was, and how the passengers and crew reacted, has been the subject of continuing dispute over the 100 years since the disaster. This title offers an account of Titanic's tragic maiden voyage.

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This book presents a revealing look at our 100-year fascination with the Titanic disaster and the various media that have been involved in reporting, preserving, and immortalizing the event.

The Titanic's fate is still very much in our collective consciousness.

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In the words of those who survived the sinking, this is the story of the Titanic's final hours, taken from the transcripts of the US and British inquiries, and specially rearranged into chronological order to present the disaster as a real-time narrative.

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The shocking story behind the shipwreck that stunned the world and the divers who discovered the truth.

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Presents a story of the Titanic and its only voyage. This work provides an account of ten of those who died, among them, Titanic's captain Edward Smith and builder Thomas Andrews, John Jacob Astor, the richest man on board, and the bandmaster, Wallace Hartley, who played as the ship sank.

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When Titanic set sail in 1912, she was the largest, most luxurious and most technologically advanced man-made moving object in the world. This book tells the untold stories of the men and women who made the ship of dreams a reality.

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An analysis of the controversies and perplexities of the Korean War.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian offers a series of illuminating profiles of the characteristics, achievements, political philosophy, influence, and ambiguities of some of the most important figures of the Revolutionary generation--including Jefferson, Franklin, and the authors of The Federalist

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In the tradition of "Guns, Germs, and Steel," Leebaert tells the stories of small forces that have triumphed over vastly larger ones and changed the course of history--from the Trojan Horse to Al Qaeda. Maps & charts.

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A German survivor of the Allied air campaign in World War II provides a unique and thought-provoking perspective on strategic, wide-area bombing

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